Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a wave of feebleness swamped me and dumped my body on the top step . |
| 2 | The second I walked off the set , a wave of pain hit me and I looked down at my grazed shins and one swollen knee . |
| 3 | He 'd planned this summit carefully , and now the Zen of the entire thing had gone crazy , because just as Dad opened his mouth to start talking blood had started to drip into my lap from my nose as a result of Charlie chucking me into his drum-kit . |
| 4 | A surge of adrenalin lifted me sky-high . |
| 5 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 6 | Then there was a tape of Jill sending me a message . |
| 7 | It 's a waste of time asking me . ’ |
| 8 | A band of gamesters joined me , with a cupful of dice and purses jingling merrily . |
| 9 | I was drawn lower and lower ; a wall of flesh surrounded me and hemmed me in on every side , yet the pressure was not painful and the flesh easily gave way like soft india-rubber before my slightest movement . |
| 10 | I was still wide awake an hour later so took a gulp of wine to help me sleep . |
| 11 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 12 | I wheeled round to face them and a lump of earth hit me full in the mouth and another in my chest , half-winding me . |
| 13 | A glimpse of statue pulled me up short . |
| 14 | A feeling of dread gripped me and I started to run . |
| 15 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 16 | And if that is so , then I revert to the considerations already stated which as a matter of construction make me think that it did so legislate . |
| 17 | Darcy focuses his own feelings on an Eritrean woman , a ‘ splendid bureaucrat ’ now based in Frankfurt but currently visiting the front line to renew her networks of information , and dreams hazily of a future sexual relationship with her until he discovers that she had once undergone , at the hands of the Dergue , such stomach-churning extremes of physical torture that ‘ my distance from such a height of anguish disqualified me . ’ |
| 18 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 19 | A number of staff pressed me to make a second , and longer visit in the future , and this I would certainly like to do . |
| 20 | A number of people told me that the film The Exorcist was positive because ( they thought ) it put the fear of the Devil into people . |
| 21 | He asked a number of men to tell me what they had seen and found the night before . |
| 22 | Towards the close of A Call to the Unconverted you can well imagine tears rolling down his cheeks as he pleads with his hearers , ‘ If I came hungry or naked to one of your doors , would you not part with more than a cup of water to relieve me ? |
| 23 | A lot of things reminded me of pricks when I was sixteen . |
| 24 | Somebody went to a lot of trouble to get me that . |
| 25 | A lot of people ask me if my hair is permed but it 's just naturally thick and curly . |
| 26 | Er a lot of people ask me , how are you choose the difference between nine nine nine and the local police station . |
| 27 | ‘ But our record-keeping system generates … information that lets a lot of people ask me how I conduct my business . ’ |
| 28 | A lot of people wrote me off too early but I feel good |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of people asked me if the staff would lose their jobs . |
| 30 | ‘ When The Darling Buds Of May became a success a lot of people approached me to make a record , saying : ‘ Well , it does n't matter if you ca n't sing — let's just do SOMETHING . ’ |